Susan Bigelow Reynolds
Biographic Data
| ID | 1209284 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susan Bigelow Reynolds |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susan Bigelow |
| FAMILY NAME | Reynolds |
| SIGNATURE | REYNOLDS S B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Deutsches Historisches Institut London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0595-7456 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 71 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 85 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 71 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1961 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Solidarity as slow conversion
How can insights from the international Slow movement deepen our understanding of moral conversion in the face of injustice? This article proposes an understanding of solidarity with the marginalized as slow conversion, that is, as ongoing conversion to the neighbor that is relational, costly, and enduring. After distinguishing “slow conversion” from what some have termed “epiphanic conversion,” I illustrate the distinction by contrasting two eff…
I Will Surely Have You Deported: Undocumenting Clergy Sexual Abuse in an Immigrant Community
Clergy sexual violence in immigrant communities is an understudied dimension of the sexual abuse crisis in the Roman Catholic church. Yet records suggest that bishops regularly treated immigrant-serving parishes as dumping grounds for serially abusive clergy. There, evidence suggests, abusers targeted minors from poor, vulnerable, and undocumented families, silencing victims with threats of deportation and further violence. How did legal status i…
Fieldwork in Ecclesial Borderlands: Culture, Community, and Belonging in a Multiethnic Boston Parish
Roman Catholic parishes in the United States are steadily becoming more diverse. This article examines St. Mary of the Angels, a small, urban, economically marginal, highly diverse Roman Catholic parish in Boston, as a case study in the question of how researchers might approach the tension between cultural dynamism and structural stability at the heart of multiethnic parish life. Attending to the ways in which parishioners articulated their deci…
Magna Carta in its European Context
Most of the celebrations of Magna Carta in 2015 concentrated on it in a more or less exclusively English context. It is the argument of this article that the ideas of Englishmen about society, government and law were much the same as those of other Europeans at the time and that Magna Carta can best be understood in that wider context. Contemporary communities in other kingdoms were also securing charters of liberties. What distinguished Magna Ca…
The Cambridge World History: Volume 5, Expanding Webs of Exchange and Conflict, 500CE-1500CE
Volume 5 of the Cambridge World History series uncovers the cross-cultural exchange and conquest, and the accompanying growth of regional and trans-regional states, religions, and economic systems, during the period 500 to 1500 CE. The volume begins by outlining a series of core issues and processes across the world, including human relations with nature, gender and family, social hierarchies, education, and warfare. Further essays examine mariti…
Tenure and property in medieval England: Tenure and property in medieval England
Journal Article Tenure and property in medieval England Get access Susan Reynolds Susan Reynolds Institute of Historical Research Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Historical Research, Volume 88, Issue 242, November 2015, Pages 563–576, https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2281.12110 Published: 15 October 2015
Early Medieval Law in India and Europe: A Plea for Comparisons
The records of the customary law that seems to have been practised in early medieval India differ from those that survive from Western Europe, but the law that was followed in the two subcontinents seems rather similar. In both cases it offers insights to the structures and norms of the societies that produced it. It is harder to compare the evidence for the existence and the beginning of professional law since some aspects of the way that it beg…
Fiefs and Vassals after Twelve Years
This up-to-date discussion takes as its starting point the challenge to the traditional notion of feudalism in the twenty-five years since the publication of Jean-Pierre Poly and Eric Bournazel’s work on the ‘mutation féodale’ and Susan Reynolds’s attack on the very idea of a feudal society in the Middle Ages. While these challenges have presented a new picture of Western Europe in the so-called feudal age, one more focused than the traditional m…
Acts of Giving: Individual, Community, and Church in Tenth-Century Christian Spain
Journal Article Acts of Giving: Individual, Community, and Church in Tenth-Century Christian Spain Get access Acts of Giving: Individual, Community, and Church in Tenth-Century Christian Spain, by Wendy Davies (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2007; pp. xvi + 244. £55). Susan Reynolds Susan Reynolds Institute of Historical Research, London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXIV, Is…
Memoirs of Fellows and Corresponding Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America
Re-Thinking Kinship and Feudalism in Early Medieval Europe
This collection of thirteen essays includes four primarily on kinship, with the remainder primarily on feudalism, though with some overlap between the two. The earliest was published in 1975, but most come from the last fifteen years. One deals with Merovingian feuds and one with the story of Cynewulf and Cyneheard; but most, including one published here for the first time, focus on France and England in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. It is …
Debate on Krishan Kumar's The Making of English National Identity
Empires: A Problem of Comparative History
Most historians of empires probably start by assuming that what they are interested in are relatively large polities that consist of a ruling part (the metropolis) and other parts (colonies or peripheries) that it dominates as a result of military conquest or political or economic bullying, and that are retained and governed separately from the metropolis rather than being directly absorbed in it. Not all the polities called empires over the cent…
That's like chopping off a finger because you're afraid it might get broken: Disease and illness in women's views of prophylactic mastectomy
There were States in Medieval Europe: A Response to Rees Davies
Variations in Professionalism
Readers who look forward to a fierce debate may be in for a disappointment, as I find myself more or less in agreement with most of the points the three commentators have made about my article. I am grateful to them for the attention they have given it and for their pertinent and constructive comments
The Emergence of Professional Law in the Long Twelfth Century
The object of this article is to draw attention to an area of European legal history that I think deserves more investigation. It is the change in legal practice caused by the transition from the diffused, undifferentiated, customary law of the earlier middle ages to the various forms of expert, esoteric, professional law that dominated the higher courts of the later middle ages. The suggestion that this has not been much studied may seem odd but…
Fiefs and Vassals in Scotland: A View from Outside
In 19941 published a book in which I attempted a reinterpretation of the evidence in medieval sources about fiefs and vassalage in England, France, Germany, and Italy but not Scotland.1 Its argument was that neither the relationship that medieval historians call vassalage nor the kind of property that they call fiefs took their shape from the warrior society of the earlier Middle Ages. Rather, the evidence suggests that they owed it to the more b…
Construction, reproduction et representation des Patriciats urbains de l'Antiquite au XXe siecle Claude Petitfrere
Journal Article Construction, reproduction et représentation des Patriciats urbains de l'Antiquité au XXe siécle Claude Petitfrére Get access Susan Reynolds Susan Reynolds Institute of Historical Research, London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 115, Issue 464, November 2000, Pages 1247–1248, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/115.464.1247 Published: 01 November 2000
The Common Legal Past of Europe, 1000-1800. Manlio Bellomo , Lydia G. Cochrane
The End of Feudalism
L'A. commente l'ouvrage de Susan Reynolds « Fiefs and Vassals : the Medieval Evidence Reinterpreted » , qui consiste en une remise en cause du concept meme de feodalite. Selon l'A., ce concept pourrait ne pas avoir ce caractere universel et operationnel qui lui est reconnu pour l'Occident medieval. La critique de S. Reynolds est principalement axee sur le rapport fief/vassal, qui n'aurait pas implique de subordination militaire avant le douzieme …
The author of the Fonthill Letter
The Fonthill letter has recently been described as ‘one of the most interesting of the corpus of documents which illustrate the working of the Anglo-Saxon law’. It tells a story that is too complicated to summarize here, but the text is now readily accessible alongside a translation and wide-ranging commentary. For present purposes it may be sufficient to say that the letter was written to King Edward the Elder of Wessex (899–924) by the godfathe…
Shorter Notices
Journal Article SHORTER NOTICES Get access SUSAN REYNOLDS SUSAN REYNOLDS London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CX, Issue 437, July 1995, Pages 691-a–691, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CX.437.691-a Published: 01 July 1995
Medieval Artisans: An Urban Class in Late Medieval England.
The victualling crafts the textile industry the clothing industry the leather industry metal workers the building crafts minor crafts artisans and the civic authorities industrial investment wealth and social status.
Hypotheses Rather Than Models: Settlement and Society in Medieval Europe. A Review Article
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Medieval Origines Gentium and the Community of the Realm
Social Mentalities and the case of Medieval Scepticism
The history of mentalities has now become so widely accepted that even British historians sometimes refer to it: one hardly needs to talk about mentalités any more, though the French word still sounds more modish. But the subject goes back at least to Vico. Although Weltanschauung and Zeitgeist sound old hat by comparison with mentalités the words remind us that nineteenth-century German historians were interested in the different ways past socie…
What Do We Mean by “Anglo-Saxon” and “Anglo-Saxons”
The immediate answer to the question posed in the title is given with characteristic dry clarity by James Murray in that great work of English history the Oxford English Dictionary . Murray's first definition is “English Saxon, Saxon of England: orig . a collective name for the Saxons of Britain as distinct from the ‘Old Saxons’ of the continent. Hence, properly applied to the Saxons (or Wessex, Essex, Middlesex, Sussex, and perhaps Kent), as dis…
Empires: A Problem of Comparative History
Most historians of empires probably start by assuming that what they are interested in are relatively large polities that consist of a ruling part (the metropolis) and other parts (colonies or peripheries) that it dominates as a result of military conquest or political or economic bullying, and that are retained and governed separately from the metropolis rather than being directly absorbed in it. Not all the polities called empires over the cent…
The Rulers of London in the Twelfth Century
The Emergence of Professional Law in the Long Twelfth Century
The object of this article is to draw attention to an area of European legal history that I think deserves more investigation. It is the change in legal practice caused by the transition from the diffused, undifferentiated, customary law of the earlier middle ages to the various forms of expert, esoteric, professional law that dominated the higher courts of the later middle ages. The suggestion that this has not been much studied may seem odd but…
Debate on Krishan Kumar's The Making of English National Identity
There were States in Medieval Europe: A Response to Rees Davies
Law and Communities in Western Christendom, c. 900-1140
Law and Communities In Western Christendom, c. 900–1140 Get access Susan Reynolds Susan Reynolds Tutor in History *Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 25, Issue 3, July 1981, Pages 205–224, https://doi.org/10.2307/845249 Published: 01 July 1981
Decline and decay in late medieval towns: A look at some of the concepts and arguments
The fortunes of late medieval towns seem to have become rather a contentious topic. That is probably a good thing. It is a poor historical proposition that cannot be illustrated by some evidence, but proof of an historical phenomenon like general decline or decay requires something more than illustration and something that argument may help to secure. So far, however, as S. H. Rigby points out, the debate has suffered from an uncertainty over ter…
Fiefs and Vassals in Scotland: A View from Outside
In 19941 published a book in which I attempted a reinterpretation of the evidence in medieval sources about fiefs and vassalage in England, France, Germany, and Italy but not Scotland.1 Its argument was that neither the relationship that medieval historians call vassalage nor the kind of property that they call fiefs took their shape from the warrior society of the earlier Middle Ages. Rather, the evidence suggests that they owed it to the more b…
Medieval urban history and the history of political thought
One of the problems of urban history is the fearsome range of expertise that the urban historian is supposed to appreciate, if not master. Belaboured, rightly, by archaeologists, geographers, and architectural historians, we have begun to open our eyes to the evidence of the physical environment of medieval towns, but that is not the half of it. In order to understand urban institutions one needs to be a religious historian, an economic historian…
I Will Surely Have You Deported: Undocumenting Clergy Sexual Abuse in an Immigrant Community
Clergy sexual violence in immigrant communities is an understudied dimension of the sexual abuse crisis in the Roman Catholic church. Yet records suggest that bishops regularly treated immigrant-serving parishes as dumping grounds for serially abusive clergy. There, evidence suggests, abusers targeted minors from poor, vulnerable, and undocumented families, silencing victims with threats of deportation and further violence. How did legal status i…
Fieldwork in Ecclesial Borderlands: Culture, Community, and Belonging in a Multiethnic Boston Parish
Roman Catholic parishes in the United States are steadily becoming more diverse. This article examines St. Mary of the Angels, a small, urban, economically marginal, highly diverse Roman Catholic parish in Boston, as a case study in the question of how researchers might approach the tension between cultural dynamism and structural stability at the heart of multiethnic parish life. Attending to the ways in which parishioners articulated their deci…
Magna Carta 1297 and the Legal Use of Literacy
Journal Article Magna Carta 1297 and the Legal Use of Literacy Get access Susan Reynolds Susan Reynolds Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Historical Research, Volume 62, Issue 149, October 1989, Pages 233–244, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2281.1989.tb00514.x Published: 12 October 2007
Sherington: Fiefs and Fields of a Buckinghamshire Village
Short Notices
Short Notices Get access SUSAN REYNOLDS SUSAN REYNOLDS London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume LXXVI, Issue CCCI, October 1961, Pages 707–708, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/LXXVI.CCCI.707 Published: 01 October 1961
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Short Notices Get access SUSAN REYNOLDS SUSAN REYNOLDS London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume LXXVI, Issue CCCI, October 1961, Pages 722–723, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/LXXVI.CCCI.722 Published: 01 October 1961
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Short Notices Get access SUSAN REYNOLDS SUSAN REYNOLDS London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume LXXVII, Issue CCCIII, April 1962, Pages 362-a–362, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/LXXVII.CCCIII.362-a Published: 01 April 1962
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Journal Article Short Notices Get access SUSAN REYNOLDS SUSAN REYNOLDS University of BirminghamLondon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume LXXVII, Issue CCCV, October 1962, Pages 776–777, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/LXXVII.CCCV.776 Published: 01 October 1962
The Victoria History of the County of Middlesex. Vol. III
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Journal Article Short Notices Get access SUSAN REYNOLDS SUSAN REYNOLDS London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume LXXX, Issue CCCXVII, October 1965, Pages 881–882, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/LXXX.CCCXVII.881 Published: 01 October 1965
Sherington: Fiefs and Fields of a Buckinghamshire Village
Revised Medieval Latin Word-List
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The forged charters of Barnstaple
The forged charters of Barnstaple SUSAN REYNOLDS SUSAN REYNOLDS Lady Margaret HallOxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume LXXXIV, Issue CCCXXXIII, October 1969, Pages 699–720, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/LXXXIV.CCCXXXIII.699 Published: 01 October 1969
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Journal Article Short Notices Get access SUSAN REYNOLDS SUSAN REYNOLDS Lady Margaret HallOxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume LXXXV, Issue 337, October 1970, Pages 848-a–848, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/LXXXV.337.848-a Published: 01 October 1970
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Journal Article Short Notices Get access SUSAN REYNOLDS SUSAN REYNOLDS Lady Margaret HallOxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume LXXXV, Issue 334, January 1970, Pages 172-b–172, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/LXXXV.334.172-b Published: 01 January 1970
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Journal Article Short Notices Get access SUSAN REYNOLDS SUSAN REYNOLDS Lady Margaret HallOxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume LXXXV, Issue 337, October 1970, Pages 834-b–834, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/LXXXV.337.834-b Published: 01 October 1970
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Short Notices Get access SUSAN REYNOLDS SUSAN REYNOLDS Lady Margaret HallOxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume LXXXV, Issue 337, October 1970, Pages 834-c–835, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/LXXXV.337.834-c Published: 01 October 1970
The Victoria History of the Counties of England. A History of Wiltshire. Vol. IX
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Journal Article Short Notices Get access SUSAN REYNOLDS SUSAN REYNOLDS Lady Margaret HallOxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume LXXXVII, Issue CCCXLIV, July 1972, Pages 659–660, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/LXXXVII.CCCXLIV.659 Published: 01 July 1972
The Rulers of London in the Twelfth Century
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Journal Article Short Notices Get access SUSAN REYNOLDS SUSAN REYNOLDS Lady Margaret HallOxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue CCCXLVI, January 1973, Pages 175-c–176, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/LXXXVIII.CCCXLVI.175-c Published: 01 January 1973
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Journal Article SHORT NOTICES Get access SUSAN REYNOLDS SUSAN REYNOLDS Lady Margaret HallOxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume XC, Issue CCCLV, April 1975, Pages 412-a–412, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/XC.CCCLV.412-a Published: 01 April 1975
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Journal Article Short Notices Get access SUSAN REYNOLDS SUSAN REYNOLDS Lady Margaret HallOxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume XC, Issue CCCLVII, October 1975, Pages 912-a–912, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/XC.CCCLVII.912-a Published: 01 October 1975
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Journal Article Short Notices Get access SUSAN REYNOLDS SUSAN REYNOLDS Lady Margaret HallOxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume XC, Issue CCCLVII, October 1975, Pages 882-a–882, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/XC.CCCLVII.882-a Published: 01 October 1975
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Journal Article Short Notices Get access SUSAN REYNOLDS SUSAN REYNOLDS Lady Margaret HallOxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume XC, Issue CCCLVII, October 1975, Pages 881–882, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/XC.CCCLVII.881 Published: 01 October 1975
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Journal Article Short Notices Get access SUSAN REYNOLDS SUSAN REYNOLDS Lady Margaret HallOxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume XC, Issue CCCLVII, October 1975, Pages 869–870, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/XC.CCCLVII.869 Published: 01 October 1975
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Short Notices SUSAN REYNOLDS SUSAN REYNOLDS Lady Margaret HallOxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume XCII, Issue CCCLXIII, April 1977, Pages 463-a–463, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/XCII.CCCLXIII.463-a Published: 01 April 1977
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